Popular Sovereignty in the West

Nootens, Geneviève

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“…Legal stratification, corporatist social arrangements and hierarchical relationships characteristic of the Middle Ages were levelled, establishing, at least in theory, a single-status community. 95 In France, for example, the Estates-General, whose members had been elected to represent the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, was abandoned in favour of the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly, composed entirely by an undifferentiated populace. Two months into its existence, the Assembly promulgated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, pronouncing that 'the law is the expression of the general will' and 'it must be the same for all'.…”

Section: A Reconstituting the Demos: Uncovering Multiple Political Cmentioning

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“…Part II explains that Australian democratic practice is largely premised on the idea of a 'culturally homogenous nation'. 5 Within the Australian community, the formal political resources are, in theory at least, distributed equally; all persons are members of a 'single-status community', 6 enjoying undifferentiated citizenship rights. Formal political equality secures important democratic outcomes, but it can also promote a false dichotomy between equality and difference that, in Australia, operates to deny the peoplehood status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.…”

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and multinational federalism in Australia

Hobbs

2018

Griffith Law Review

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Democratic governance is premised on the belief that all citizens are empowered to shape the society in which they live. Over generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have maintained that Australian democratic practice does not live up to this ideal, contending that the state's legal and political framework does not empower them with the capacity to have their voices heard and their interests considered in the processes of government. However, non-Indigenous Australians remain suspicious of Indigenous-specific political and legal mechanisms designed to rectify this structural fault. In this paper, I argue that this suspicion-and Australia's governance framework more broadly-arises from a particular conception of democratic theory that marginalises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoplehood. If, as the Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for, Australia's political institutions are to be rebuilt so as to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 'to take a rightful place in [their] own country', that conception of democratic theory must first be revealed and re-centred. Multinational federalism offers one path towards a more equitable future.

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Section: A Reconstituting the Demos: Uncovering Multiple Political Cmentioning

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and multinational federalism in Australia

Hobbs

2018

Griffith Law Review

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“…Over time, the process of concentrating power has broadened to include an increased democratic orientation. The term also encompasses the right of a state's citizens to exercise their self‐determination, including their individual rights vis‐à‐vis the state (Grimm, 2013; Nootens, 2013). These conceptions of sovereignty have always remained closely linked to a geographic‐territorial orientation, despite the rise of cybernetic thinking from the second half of the twentieth century onward, and thus of thinking in networks (Lambach, 2020).…”

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Rethinking geographies of sovereignty: Towards a conceptual framework of situated sovereignty

Lange,

Pütz,

Herlo

2023

Geography Compass

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We engage with debates on shifting geographies of sovereignty in the digital age by providing a conceptual framework for “situated sovereignty”. Our contribution draws on a review of the scholarly literature and current sovereignty practices. We aim to move beyond state‐centred and territorial understandings of sovereignty. A common discussion is the necessity of reconfiguring notions of sovereignty. However, hardly any studies have discussed the sociospatial configurations of practising sovereignty in the digital present. We conceptualise practices of sovereignty along intersecting strands of scholarly literature that have scarcely been related, drawing from political geography, science and technology studies, and critical digitalisation studies. Reviewing the literature, we identify three fields framing current practices of sovereignty—(i) state and territory, (ii) civic engagement, and (iii) digitalisation—based on which we develop a conceptual framework of situated sovereignty. Our framework addresses the situated role of sovereignty practices from a spatial point of view. We propose pragmatism, legitimacy, and governance as three analytical themes for better understanding current and future shifting geographies of sovereignty and enhancing sovereignty studies.

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Order: From Plebeian Disorder to Popular Citizenship—Constitutional Imagination Between Contexts, 1766–1814

León

2020

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Popular Sovereignty in the West

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and multinational federalism in Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and multinational federalism in Australia

Rethinking geographies of sovereignty: Towards a conceptual framework of situated sovereignty

Order: From Plebeian Disorder to Popular Citizenship—Constitutional Imagination Between Contexts, 1766–1814

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